An armed society is a polite society.
ROBERT A. HEINLEINThere is no way that writers can be tamed and rendered civilized or even cured.
More Robert A. Heinlein Quotes
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A competent and self-confident person is incapable of jealousy in anything. Jealousy is invariably a symptom of neurotic insecurity.
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When any government, or any church for that matter, undertakes to say to its subjects, This you may not read, this you must not see, this you are forbidden to know, the end result is tyranny and oppression no matter how holy the motives.
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Jealousy is a disease, love is a healthy condition. The immature mind often mistakes one for the other, or assumes that the greater the love, the greater the jealousy.
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No statement should be believed because it is made by an authority.
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I don’t see how an article of clothing can be indecent. A person, yes.
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Anyone who considers protocol unimportant has never dealt with a cat.
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Women and cats will do as they please, and men and dogs should relax and get used to the idea.
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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.
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I never learned from a man who agreed with me.
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It’s an indulgence to sit in a room and discuss your beliefs as if they were a juicy piece of gossip.
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The human race divides politically into those who want people to be controlled and those who have no such desire.
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By cultivating the beautiful we scatter the seeds of heavenly flowers, as by doing good we cultivate those that belong to humanity.
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One man’s theology is another man’s belly laugh.
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Never insult anyone by accident.
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Never worry about theory as long as the machinery does what it’s supposed to do.
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